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Word: mit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, MIT, and the Atomic Energy Commission planned the research center for a twofold purpose. First, they will use the apparatus to produce strange particles--short-lived and unstable packets of energy such as hyperons, anti-protons, and anti-neutrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electron Accelerator Begins Fundamental Operations | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

...gymkhana sponsored by the MIT Sports Car Club, Phil Bradley took the touring class in his Fiat 1100, and Grey Jones placed a close second in the small sports class with his MGA 1600. His time was the second fastest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Car Club Defeats Babson, M.I.T., in Separate Weekend Meets | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

Economics 1, with the greatest enrollment of any College course is a case in point. Using a popular text-book by MIT's Paul A. Samuelson, the course lays great stress on Federal fiscal policy (e.g. "countercyclical spending" by the national government to help offset periodic business slumps). Lecturers include Seymour Harris, Chairman of the Department and John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...street," he would say, thrusting out his low er lip like a rain spout, "is a fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...strongly resembled Aimee. Back home at the Temple, Aimee met the attack of the lawmen by crying that it was simply another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious to public morals." Her flock stayed ferociously loyal as the case was tried on the front pages and wound its way in and out of court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Was Aimee? | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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